About this ebook
The heartwarming, classic true story of a dog who didn't understand he's a dog—and the imaginative boy who loved him.
Funny and poignant, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be is a lively portrait of an unorthodox childhood and an unforgettable friendship. Growing up in on the frontier of Saskatoon, Canada, the legendary adventurer and naturalist, Farley Mowat, received a gift from his mom: a dog she bought for four cents. Farley quickly named him "Mutt."
Mutt displayed skills at hunting and retrieving that were either pure genius or just plain crazy—once going so far as to retrieve a plucked and trussed ruffed grouse from the grocer. Mutt also loved riding passenger in an open car wearing goggles and climbing both trees and ladders — the perfect companion for a child with a love for animals and misadventures.
Originally published for young people, this is a memoir by the author Never Cry Wolf that will delight dog lovers of all ages.
" The Dog Who Wouldn't Be was, and will forever remain, one of my first and deepest literary loves. When I first read it as a child, it became my "gateway book" to Farley Mowat's other great works, books which inspired me throughout my life. Re-reading it as an adult . . . I fell in love all over again with the eccentric and talented Mutt, with Farley's boyhood adventures, with the wild Saskatoon prairie. This classic remains one of the best biographies of an animal ever written–a masterful tribute to the bond between an extraordinary boy and an extraordinary dog." — Sy Montgomery, author of Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
About the author
Farley Mowat was a Canadian writer, environmentalist, and activist. After serving in the military and exploring as a field technician in remote areas of Canada, Mowat published his first book, People of the Deer , in 1952. Over the next half-century he published dozens of titles and is best known for Never Cry Wolf , an account of his adventures with Arctic wolves in northern Manitoba, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be , a book for young adults, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float about his adventures sailing along the Newfoundland coast.
